Court confirms indictment against former KPM chief and director

The news of “Justice Vow” has confirmed the Constitutional Court's spokeswoman in Pristina, Mirlinda Gashi.

“Referring to your request for information, we inform you that the Constitutional Court in Pristina on November 2nd, 2021 has refused the request of the accused L.L. to drop the indictment and the subject is located at the Court of Appeals, for placing at”, Gashi said.

She has also announced that the accused were not continued the house arrest measure, as she said she did not accept a proposal from the prosecution for the continuation of this move, reports the “Justice Vow”.

The defendants on November 22nd 2021 have expired with house arrest measures and the same has not been continued since the court has rejected the State Prosecutor's proposal for continuing the move as envisioned in Article 183, KKP 8th paragraph”, Gashi has announced.

According to her, the accused Bilal and his defender have not filed a request to cast out the charge and to challenge the evidence.

The incident, set up on September 15th 2021, charges Luan Latifin that in the quality of Independent Commission head for Media (KPM) and Arben Billi in the quality of management and finance director at the KPM, during June 2021, they had demanded and taken bribes of the injured Elhami Haziri, owner of the company “Tel Kos”.

The indictment is said to have been accepted by the accused in order that the company “Tel Kos” should not be pronounced fine because the same had committed legal violations by extending the network to some countries he had not announced. KAM.

According to the indictment, Bilalli on June 24, 2021, had met in his office with the owners of the company, Elhami Haziri, Enver Berisha and Ymer Kurtoll, who had been asked for 20 thousand euros in bribes, telling him that the accused Latif was looking for this amount of money.

But after the injured Haziri had told him that he did not have that much, the same had managed to settle for the start of granting 10 thousand euros, where, according to the prosecution, accused Bilall had written to the accused Latif “he was launching only 10”, and then on June 29, 2021, the accused Bill had met with the injured Haziri.

According to the prosecution, both had met at the restaurant “Garden”, in Gjilan, and after the injured Haziri had given him 8 thousand euros, had asked accused Bilal to contact accused Latif to convince him that the man had learned that the money was given.

After that, the prosecution is claiming that by implementing secret measures and under police surveillance, the accused Bilal in the presence of the injured Haziri had called the accused Latifi by saying “I took a job and now I'm walking”.

According to the indictment, accused Bilall had accepted the sum of $8,000 in an envelope and headed towards Pristina, where he was detained by police who had found the amount of 8 thousand euros and seized it.

For these actions, the two defendants are being charged for criminal work “taking bribes”, from Article 421, paragraph 1, concerning Article 31 of the Penal Code, which is punishable by fines and imprisonment of one to eight years.